The only reason that we were able to survive not going home over Christmas was that both my mom and Josh’s mom came to visit us over the month of December. My mom came the first week and Josh’s mom came after Christmas. So much fun to have Grandmas come to our house and play with the girls.
Here are some pictures of the girls celebrating Christmas and opening presents with Grandma Leckbee.
Sarah opening her 'Toodles' from Grandma
Rachel with the blanket Grandma made her, Abby has a matching one too!
Sarah with her Mickey Mouse blanket grandma made
You can’t really tell that Sarah was sick in the pictures but about 15 minutes after she was done opening presents she started throwing up and was very sick for several days of Grandma’s visit. It was really sad because Grandma was looking forward to seeing Sarah and playing with her (she just changes so much between each visit) and then she was so sick for days. It was so sad and Grandma was afraid that Sarah would associate being sick with Grandma coming, but thank goodness that was not the case. After Sarah finally got better (it took a good 3-4 days) she loved having Grandma around and wanted to play with her.
Reading with Grandma right before bed
Rachel LOVES having visitors at our house and the best kinds are her Grandmas!! Before Grandma Leckbee got here Rachel made a list of all the things she wanted to do with her. I am not sure that they accomplished all the stuff but then once they opened presents priorities did change. Grandma got a big box of bendaroos for the girls and they loved them!! Rachel and Grandma played with them daily for hours at a time, it was a huge hit. I actually can’t believe that I don’t have a picture of them playing with the Bendaroos, that was almost all they did. I guess I was too busy dealing with a very sick Sarah. One of the other things that Rachel wanted to do with Grandma was bake something special with her Easy Bake Oven. I thought that would be a great idea since Grandma Leckbee is such an awesome baker. I think by the end Grandma thought the Easy Bake was more work than making cinnamon rolls from scratch! Here are some pictures of the girls ‘baking’ with Grandma.
The last thing we did with Grandma before she left was celebrated her birthday. Grandma flew home the day before her birthday and the girls wanted to celebrate with her so we made a yummy Red Cake. I figured that Grandma normally doesn’t get cake unless she makes it so I thought this would be a nice change. Rachel just loves celebrating anything and Birthdays are a big deal!
Happy Birthday to Grandma, Happy Birthday to you!!